aschmelyun

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by aschmelyun 5mo ago
I've had this in my backlog for a while now. If you ever move forward with yours, let me know!
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by aschmelyun 5mo ago
I wasn't born just yet, haha!
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by aschmelyun 5mo ago
Author here, I didn't! I've updated the article to reflect the actual port (and have since learned the difference between the two).
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by aschmelyun 9mo ago
> any published work is likely to be taken and repurposed, for no royalties or credit I would say that now, more than ever, this means you should be collecting and sharing what you create. Not on large social media platforms either, on w
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
While not an outright solution to the fact that they _are_ expensive, if you don't care about them being second hand or a little older you can score a pretty good deal on sites like eBay. For instance, TM-T88V printers can do more but
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
That’s the one! Got it from a local B+N.
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
They’re being stored redundantly on a sqlite db. I’ll think about adding some kind of feed to the page if others are interested. I don’t know, I kind of like having a place for some people to anonymously vent (as more than a few have).
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
Worse: I worked in grocery stores for years as a cashier lol
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
I did! I also use gloves when handling a large amount of the receipts. I worked as a cashier for years in my teens and twenties though, so it’s probably already in my blood.
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
Hey it’s me, the author! That was intentional as I honestly enjoy the trolling. There’s a basic rate limiter set up to prevent misuse, and a character limit, but beyond that I just kind of wanted to see what people would send. It’s been sur
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by aschmelyun 11mo ago
I have a rotary phone, a voip adapter, and have been writing a local SIP server for another experiment. I am insanely tempted to replicate this.
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I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer(aschmelyun.com)
5 points by aschmelyun 1y ago|0 comments
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
That is absolutely fantastic. I've always wanted to get my hands on one to mimic a ticker-tape with updating stock/crypto prices. One day! Also, EeePC is something I haven't heard about in so long. That took me back!
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
Receipt printers are a blast! I had a project from a couple years ago printing out GitHub tickets using a similar setup to what I have for this dot matrix printer.
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
I ask myself the same thing every day
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
It’s physical ink on paper, I feel like as long as you store it in a cool, dry place, you can probably get decades out of it if not more.
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
I was at a tires place that still uses them as of last month.
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
It’s pretty expensive though! I got the smallest box I could, 1000 sheets, from Staples for $30.
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
Yep, parallel! My bad, I’ll have to make some adjustments to the article.
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
Oooh, awesome! Thanks for the heads up
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by aschmelyun 2y ago
I’ve been wanting to explore more with this design-wise. There’s literally dozens of pages in the manual regarding font sizing, emphasis, italics, sub and superscripts, etc. Maybe for version 2.0!
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Building an app with a single index.php file(youtube.com)
1 points by aschmelyun 2y ago|0 comments
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Build SPAs directly in your backend framework with Inertia.js [video](youtube.com)
3 points by aschmelyun 3y ago|0 comments
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by aschmelyun 3y ago
You both are 100% correct! Originally I was going to have a wait (say, no new digits after 3 seconds, mark the ascii character), but I figured just scrapping everything after 20 as an immediate character and anything under as a 3 digit one,
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by aschmelyun 3y ago
I was directly inspired by that video, haha
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by aschmelyun 3y ago
I still miss it to this day, for basic texting it was the superior system.
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by aschmelyun 3y ago
You're correct with ASCII! My original idea was to use T9, but my ultimate goal is to use this as a way of writing code. Currently waiting on a small oled screen to print out the # inputs and corresponding last-typed character.
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My keyboard wasn't mechanical enough, so I upgraded to a rotary phone(twitter.com)
82 points by aschmelyun 3y ago|24 comments
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Show HN: Suggest.gg – A free product roadmap tool aimed toward content creators(suggest.gg)
1 points by aschmelyun 3y ago|0 comments
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by aschmelyun 5y ago
Ooh, that's good to know. I'll keep that in mind for Version 2!

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